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Awards of Excellence in Power Sweeping |
Awards of Excellence in Sweeping
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THE AWARDS
In 1995 the founder of American Sweeper magazine, our editor Ranger Kidwell-Ross, began the tradition of recognizing outstanding individuals in the sweeping industry with an honor called the Award of Excellence in Power Sweeping. The award qualifications, which include more than just success in the sweeping industry, encompass time devoted to building professionalism in the industry and in assisting others involved in sweeping. Starting in 2006, WorldSweeper.com resumed this tradition. Here you may read about the current recipient of this special Award, as well as information about other winners in past years. 
Winner of the 2012 WorldSweeper.com
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At the National Pavement Exposition held in February of 2012 the WorldSweeper.com Award of Excellence in Power Sweeping was awarded to NE-based John Dubbioso. "Johnny D," as his many friends in the U.S. power sweeping industry call him, is one of the inventors of the Broom Bear sweeper and President of a number of sweeping-related companies. These include Tri-State Industrial Maintenance, Three-D Equipment Rebuilding and several others. To see the wording on the actual award, take a look at this PDF version of the Award. You may also listen to the 44-minute audio interview between Dubbioso and WorldSweeper's editor, Ranger Kidwell-Ross, conducted shortly after the award was made. In the interview, Dubbioso discusses his beginnings in the sweeping industry in 1975, as well as his take on how the power sweeping industry has changed in the 25+ years since then Note: To play the interview, click this link or on the small triangle inside the circle you see to the left. If you have any trouble accessing this audio, please let us know.
Click on the YouTube-hosted video, below, to view the Award Presentation, which was held at the 2012 National Pavement Expo in Memphis, Tennessee.
To learn more about John Dubbioso's history and his efforts on behalf of the sweeping industry, you are invited to check out our award feature story on the company. We also have online an additional story that was written when Dubbioso and his companies were featured by WorldSweeper in October of 2010. The company's website is located at www.tristateindustrialmaintenance.com/. |
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Winner for 2010, Allan Heydorn, editor of PAVEMENT Maintenance & Reconstruction Magazine. Winner for 2009, South Carolina-based Dale McCaskill and his company, Southco Sweeping. Winner for 2008, Seattle-based Davidson-Macri Sweeping and SweeperMarket Magazine. First Award Winner, Gabriel Vitale, owner of C and L Sweeping in New Jersey. Winner for 2006, Gale Holsman, owner of American Sweeping, Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri. Eugene Hansen, the founder of Minnesota-based Clean Sweep, Inc. Mark Carter, co-owner of Los Angeles-based Bill's Sweeping. Bob Schwarze, founder of Schwarze Industries, Inc., and his son, Mark, were the winners for 2002. |
Winner for 2011, Ray Confer of Michigan-based C & J Sweeping, Inc. In 2007, the WorldSweeper.com Award of Excellence in Power Sweeping was awarded to the B.W. Young family and the company he founded, The Young Manufacturing Company -- better known in the sweeping industry as the TYMCO sweeper company. Tom Ostuni is a man who in 1966 looked at an industry in its infancy and saw its potential. He took a single sweeper and a single account and turned it into a full-scale success, helping many others along the way. 
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